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Ben Whitelaw

Ben Whitelaw

Founder and editor of Everything in Moderation* with 15+ years of working in media strategy. Ben has led content moderation teams for news organisations and is co-host of the Ctrl-Alt-Speech podcast
Oct
12

Social Reckoning is media literacy with a $30m budget

The critics don’t love the new Aaron Sorkin movie. Not that it really matters, that’s not the point of it.
7 min read
Oct
09

Open-weight sovereignty, 'unprecedented' Meta and Bonta subpoenas

The need-to-know developments shaping digital platforms, online speech and internet safety - edition #358
6 min read
Oct
02

Anti-terrorism 'accountability theatre', Meta's Muse problem and Jess Davies vs xAI

The need-to-know developments shaping digital platforms, online speech and internet safety - edition #357
8 min read
Sep
25

The other AI alignment problem, Discord takes a guess and new Ofcom probe

The need-to-know developments shaping digital platforms, online speech and internet safety - edition #356
6 min read
Sep
18

EU teen ban lands (with a twist), AI labs' safety PR blitz and a T&S story worth telling

The need-to-know developments shaping digital platforms, online speech and internet safety - edition #355
7 min read
Sep
14

Now is the time to tell your T&S story (updated framework)

The current AI safety debate reminds us that Trust & Safety's expertise is needed more than ever. So why can't the industry get that expertise heard? And what can you do to start telling your own story?
7 min read
Sep
11

Duty-bound feeds, Muse-ing on safety, and dead in a decade?

The need-to-know developments shaping digital platforms, online speech and internet safety - edition #354
7 min read
Sep
04

OpenAI joins the club, FTC builds its case and 153m reasons to worry

The need-to-know developments shaping digital platforms, online speech and internet safety - edition #353
5 min read
Aug
28

Why Meta settled, Alice in vendor-land and Bill Gates on these "turbulent times"

The need-to-know developments shaping digital platforms, online speech and internet safety - edition #352
5 min read
Aug
18

Online safety regulation as community policing

A recent edition of T&S Insider called for regulators to spend more time at industry events like TrustCon. One EiM reader argues that merely showing up isn't enough.
4 min read